Word: gail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hang on to their title. For the underdog Knicks, the match-ups posed a number of imponderables. Forward Dave DeBusschere figured to neutralize the rebounding muscle of Bill Bridges, but could Forward Bill Bradley and Guard Earl Monroe contain the faster, higher-scoring tandem of Jim McMillian and Gail Goodrich? Would Center Willis Reed, slowed by tendinitis, be able to pull Wilt Chamberlain away from the boards by shooting from the outside? And, in the most exciting confrontation of all, could Guard Walt Frazier outhustle Jerry West? "Between us," predicted Frazier, "it is going to be a battle of pride...
...popular, even irresistible figure: outgoing, unpretentious, effervescent. A member of one of Maryland's oldest families, he grew up on Staten Island in New York City. As a teenager, he became a star tennis player. He graduated from Williams College with honors and married a Vassar beauty, Gail Nicholas, who shared his conservative political views. While working in a management-consultant firm in Chicago, he earned a master's degree in business administration...
George F. Carrier, Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics, will head the committee examining the Commission. The other members of the committee are Ackerman, Philip Gelston '74, Johnson, Paul, Isadore Twersky, Littaeur Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, and Gail Pierson, assistant Professor of Economics. Pierson and Paul are not members of the Commission...
Virginia Akabane '69, entered the tournament seeded third, just edging out 15-year-old Gail Ramsey of Bala Cynwd, Pa., who is ranked third nationally, and fourth in the championship contest...
...rival coach, "is based on upsetting the tempo and style of his opponent. He does it by running, running and running some more. He mixes that up by ball hawking, by grabbing, by slapping and by hand-waving defense. His clubs dote on harassing the man with the ball." Gail Goodrich, for one, well remembers the grind imposed by "Mr. Run." "There were nights when I'd come home from practice so tired I'd be lucky to get my clothes off. Exhausted. Totally exhausted. But that tremendous practice tempo would prevail in the games. Coach Wooden...